Thursday, January 17, 2013

Google has rolled out a rather substantial Street View update this
morning, covering hundreds of towns in Israel and updating various other
cities across the world. Some of the highlights include the Sea of Galilee, the Western Wall and the Bet She'an National Park.

In the graphic at the top, all the blue lines show where Google Street View is available. (The blue dots are links to photographs.) Lots of touring in Jerusalem and along the western part of the country, but do note that you can take a nice trip down along the Dead Sea and catch glimpses of Qumran and Masada as you go. They even drove into Ein Gedi. If you click on the Bet She'an link in their blurb, you'll see that they walked around the site and looks like this: